With the ink barely dry on its deal to purchase Charter Communications Inc. systems in Charleston, W.Va., for about $800 million, Suddenlink Communications finds itself engaged in a major retransmission-consent battle with Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Sinclair, which owns ABC affiliate WCHS and has a local...
By Darla Martin Tucker, The Business Press, San Bernardino, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 27--STUDY: BOOM TIMES AHEAD FOR SMALL-BIZ BROADBAND: Small and medium-sized businesses will dominate the broadband market and broadband sellers will grow also as long as the Federal...
Leading cable operators are urging federal regulators to refrain from applying new taxes to cable-modem service. The MSOs -- including Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc. -- are worried that for the first time, the Federal Communications Commission is going to...
There don't appear to be any roadblocks to News Corp. plan to restructure Rupert Murdoch's satellite holdings into megacompany, spokesman said. Restructuring, which analysts said would unlock value of satellite interests, would link global satellite operations and investments in new public company that Murdoch would control. Analysts estimated new...
If NTIA Dir. Larry Irving leaves before end of President Clinton's term, one potential candidate has lined up some high- powered Hill support to replace him. Situation is touchy one for Irving, who isn't openly looking for new job but has said he probably won't stay until end...
Justice slammed PITTSBURGH AP -- A judge who once jailed a man for swearing and slamming a courtroom door flew into a rage of his own over a tardy public defender. Guess what the judge did? Allegheny County Judge Donald Machen slammed his own courtroom door...
US West USW is prepared to pay $30 million termination fee to cancel $600 million agreement to sell Twin Cities area cable systems in Minn. to Charter Communications, spokesman said. FCC said USW could keep systems if it completed spinoff of cable operations by July 31 (TVD March 2 p6),...
FCC Cable Bureau allowed U S West to keep Minneapolis-St. Paul cable systems, which it earlier had agreed to sell to Charter, until completion of spin-off, which must be done by July 31. Charter filed suit in St. Louis County, Mo., Circuit Court Feb. 19 to force telco to complete...
ST. LOUIS -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) today announced that on Friday, May 4, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") granted Charter's request for a limited waiver of the set-top security integration ban. Under FCC rules, operators are prevented from deploying set-top boxes with integrated security after July 1, 2007....
WASHINGTON -- Charter Communications Inc. was fined $20,000 for violating federal rules governing signal leakage from cable plant, the Federal Communications Commission said last-Wednesday. The FCC's Enforcement Bureau issued the fine after i WASHINGTON -- Charter Communications Inc....
WASHINGTON Paul Allen's $4.5 billion deal to buy Charter Communications Inc. appears to be on track at the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC, in a public notice dated Nov. 4, said it had accepted for filing 23 applications to transfe ...
WASHINGTON -- Charter Communications Inc.'s move to replace ESPNews in some systems after a dispute over Internet video streaming may have violated Federal Communications Commission rules, a broadcasting trade group said Aug. 3. The National WASHINGTON --...
St. Louis-based Charter Communications Inc. hopes to close on its $600 million acquisition of MediaOne's 300,000-subscriber Twin Cities cable properties in Minnesota early next month. In a Federal Communications Commission filing, the MSO said it St. Louis-based Charter Communications Inc. hopes to...
WASHINGTON - Charter Communications Inc. is asking federal regulators to help it respond to competition from a wireless cable service provided by Pacific Bell in the Los Angeles market. Two weeks ago, Charter asked the Federal Communications Commi WASHINGTON - Charter Communications Inc....
Charter Communications Inc. sued U S West Media Group UMG last week, after UMG's video arm, MediaOne, allegedly refused to close on the $600 million sale of its Twin Cities cable properties. In a lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court for St. Louis ...
WASHINGTON -- The National Cable Television Association asked the Federal Communications Commission last week to grant waiver requests for AT&T Broadband and Charter Communications Inc. in connection with complying with set-top box rules taking WASHINGTON -- The National Cable Television Association asked the ...
Charter Communications Inc. told the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday that only half of its phone customers have submitted the required acknowledgements of their understanding that emergency-911 service may not work in some instances Charter Communications Inc. told the Federal Communications Commission last...
Minneapolis regulators want their federal counterparts to deny U S West Inc.'s request for an extension of a waiver allowing it to own its Twin Cities cable systems. A Federal Communications Commission filing last week by cities controlling one-h Minneapolis regulators want...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The following statement was issued today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro regarding CEA's comments recently filed to the Federal Communications Commission FCC. CEA details why Charter Communications' request for waiver of common reliance on separate security functions in cable and consumer...
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